Dans la chaleur de la nuit
director:
Norman Jewison
playwright:
Stirling Silliphant
actor:
Sidney Poitier
/
Rod Steiger
/
Warren Oates
/
Peter Whitney
/
Lee Grant
…
genre:
Crime
/
Drame
/
Mystère
/
Thriller
region:
United States
language:
English
length: 1h 49m
release date: 1967-08-02
IMDb: tt0061811
overview
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.